Opera Browser

From: UM (520001085531-0001_at_t-online.de)
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:32:50 +0100

Today I tried the Opera Web browser, and I must say
I'm fully convinced and have switched from IE to Opera.

In IE (and OE, and nearly all "software" of Microsoft)
nearly every click on any link starts some external plugins/
DLLs/OCX etc. etc. to collect data, and which nowadays
have become the most dangerous things for virus
installations/distributions and spyware backdoors.
My concern was especially the security issues plus privacy.
It is a shameful practice by some (too many!) companies
on the net to collect horrible sum of data from each
surfer secretly and hiddenly by the above mentioned
methods. I've analyzed what network traffic and program
modules each click on a web page (even locally stored
HTMLs! ) hiddenly do. You won't believe it if you haven't
analyzed it yourself! I can only say: be very very cautious
when you click on any link in this WWW jungle of nowadys!

In Opera these threats are minimal as far as I could see it;
I guess maybe 1% compared to Microsoft's IE.

Regarding privacy: just read Opera's privacy policy plus
their partner's Google's; they are fair and user friendly.

BTW, Opera is an example for a modern software: everything
is flexible, resizeable, individually configurable, modular, ...

And, I'm planning also to replace my Win2K with Linux.
BTW, I'm "Microsoft Certified System Egineer" :-), so I
really know of what I'm talking of... :-)

UM

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